A tunable photonic crystal filter for terahertz frequency applications

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5070, Issue , 2003, Pages 89-97

  Drysdale, Timothy D ^a   Blaikie, Richard J ^b   Cumming, David R S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Capacitive coupling; Metallic photonic crystal; Microwave; Photonic band gap; Terahertz; Tunable filter

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; CRYSTALS; ENERGY GAP; MICROWAVES; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; TUNING;

CAPACITIVE COUPLINGS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FILTERS;

OPTICAL FILTERS;

EID: 0242467600     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.500104     Document Type: Conference Paper

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